A furore has erupted over hospital A&E departments after doctors' leaders warned care is being compromised and staff are "burnt out".
It comes after a string of poor performances in recent months at casualty departments, including Paisley's Royal Alexandra Hospital, which returned its worst performance on record two weeks ago as "heroic" staff battle on.
We told last week how just 49.8 per cent of the 1,112 patients who attended the hospital's A&E department in the week up til March 13 were seen within four hours.
